Additionally, a round silver ‘collar stud’ bearing traces of fire-gilding; adorned with carnelians and other gemstones.
1: A wide pendant from a woman’s necklace (Yomud Turkmen, northwest Afghanistan, northeast Persia). Motif resembling a double eagle with wings spread out and/or a larger ram’s head at the top with an eagle head each to the right and left. Crafted from shiny silverplate, and covered on the front with smaller silver-gilt plates, embellished with ram’s heads and medallions as well as with with four embedded green, red and blue glass gemstones. A silver rosette pendant is placed to the right and two the left at the top. While at the bottom: seven pendants, five of which rosettes studded in green, red and blue glass gemstones. Further below, round pendant plates with Persian coin patterns. Entirely made of gilt silver. Dimensions: 14.5 cm x 17 cm (with the pendants).
2: An ornamental disc or ‘collar stud’ of the Yomud Turkmens. A post at the back of the ornament serves Yomud Turkmens women as a button to close their garment frontally at the collar. Thus, ‘collar stud’. One sturdy, round silver plate is overlaid with silversheet at its front side. Chased (via matrices) from this sheet are radial ram’s head motifs in two circular rows. Deep within these decorations can still be found traces of an earlier fire-gilding. A big carnelian stone is placed centrally on this jewel, at the edges of which sit embedded twelve different small gemstones (carnelians, glass and others). All semi-round cabochons. DM: 9 cm.
Both objects: First half of the 20th century. (ME)

Provenance: Hungarian Private Collection.

Lit.: 'Schmuck aus dem Herzen der Seidenstraße' by Johannes Kalter, ill. 65/65a; 86/86a.